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Community health workers, supported by Nehawu, picketed outside the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Photo: Silver Sibiya/GroundUp

Community health workers picket outside Labour CourtSilver Sibiya

Striking workers gather outside the Mister Sweet factory in Germiston. Photo: Kimberly Mutandiro / GroundUp

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Members of the South African public sector union, National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) hold placards outside the Home Affairs office during a protest over wage disputes and other work issues in Cape Town, South Africa, 13 March 2023. Reuters/Esa Alexander

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National Minimum Wage increases

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Image: A Standard Bank branch manager fired for “misconduct” must be reinstated, the Johannesburg Labour Appeal Court has ruled. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp

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Distell workers down tools and picket

Distell workers down tools and picket

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Image: UCT Employees Union is planning to strike as negotiations deadlocked with university management at the CCMA on Thursday. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp

UCT Employees Union threatens strike as negotiations deadlock

Liezl Human 27 Jan 2023

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Content moderators sue Meta over alleged 'union-busting' in Kenya

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22 Mar 2023

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National shutdown: lawbreakers will be arrested

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Tips to survive the national shutdown

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Members of the South African public sector union, National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) hold placards outside the Home Affairs office during a protest over wage disputes and other work issues in Cape Town, South Africa, 13 March 2023. Reuters/Esa Alexander

Court orders striking healthcare workers to end walkout

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Image source: Getty Images

When employee background checks become an invasion of privacy

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Coworking spaces: Where the best of hybrid work models meet

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No work, no pay principle to apply to striking employees

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Pitfalls of not preserving restraint of trade rights in final settlement

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Increased earnings threshold entitles more employees to protection under labour laws

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National Minimum Wage increases

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Meta appeals Kenyan court's decision it can be sued in Kenya

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Image source: Getty Images

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Image: A Standard Bank branch manager fired for “misconduct” must be reinstated, the Johannesburg Labour Appeal Court has ruled. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp

You can't be fired just because you're unpopular, court says

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Image source: Antonio Dillard from

Enforcing restraint of trade: Planet Fitness case unfit for court

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Qualification fraud doesn't pay... but fakers will

Hlengiwe Skosana 9 Feb 2023

Distell workers down tools and picket

Distell workers down tools and picket

Liezl Human 8 Feb 2023

Image: UCT Employees Union is planning to strike as negotiations deadlocked with university management at the CCMA on Thursday. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp

UCT Employees Union threatens strike as negotiations deadlock

Liezl Human 27 Jan 2023

Image source: Getty Images

Once judged, twice... res judicata

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Johan Botes, Partner and head of Baker McKenzie’s Employment & Compensation Practice in Johannesburg.

#BizTrends2023: Quitting quiet quitting - balancing the needs of employers and employees

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Can an employer dock salaries due to load shedding?

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Tata Mokwayi 16 Jan 2023

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Campaign to pay former teaching assistants resumes

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Much ado about tattoos: Workplace rules

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Source: iStock.

SANParks approves polygraph testing

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Workers from public sector unions affiliated to three federations marched to the National Treasury in Tshwane on Tuesday demanding that the government revise its 3% wage increase. Photo: Chris Gilili / GroundUp

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Nxesi seeks to clarify 'misinformation' regarding wage offer

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